Speaking to the weekly Hebrew Mishpacha Magazine, Finance Minister Roni Bar-On, a senior Kadima official and close associate of Tzipi Livni stated that he does not see a situation in which Kadima and Shas are in the same coalition government. He explained that the elections were due to Shas’ refusal to cut a deal with Kadima a number of months ago so to enter into a coalition with Shas at this time lacks logic.
He added that while Likud is committed to the chareidi parties, the same does not hold true for Kadima.
Not regarded as a fan of Binyamin Netanyahu, Bar-On added that the Likud leader is “afraid to head a right-wing government and hopes they take the right-wing away from him. What is the point of giving the government to a man who is afraid to rule?”
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
Join the official YWN WhatsApp status
One Response
Hareidim in Eretz Yisrael (including Shas), are roughly the same percentage of the population as non-European (i.e. African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Asians) are in the U.S. What would happen in the U.S. if a major political leader announced that his party wanted nothing to do with such a large percentage of the population?
I expect that people like Bar-On will do as well in the long run as the handful of nativist Republicans in the last election (they lost soundly and are unanimously rejected by their party)